Hans Steinhoff

Director, Writer

March 10, 1882 — April 20, 1945 (63 years)
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882, Marienberg – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era. Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stage director. He directed his first silent film Clothes Make the Man, the adaption of a novel by Gottfried Keller, in 1921. Steinhoff was a convinced Nazi and directed many propaganda films, he sometimes even wore his Nazi party membership button on the film set. His most notable films were perhaps Hitlerjunge Quex (1933), an influential propaganda film for the Hitler Youth, and Ohm Krüger (1940), for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. On April 20, 1945, during the last war days, Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last flight to Madrid. The plane was shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all passengers died.

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Known For

  • Hitler Youth Quex
    Hitler Youth Quex1933
  • Uncle Krüger
    Uncle Krüger1941
  • The Old and The Young King
    The Old and The Young King1935
  • Tanz auf dem Vulkan
    Tanz auf dem Vulkan1938
  • Wally of the Vultures
    Wally of the Vultures1940
  • Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death
    Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death1939
  • Rembrandt
    Rembrandt1942
  • Love Must Be Understood
    Love Must Be Understood1933
  • A Woman of No Importance
    A Woman of No Importance1936
  • Gabriele Dambrone
    Gabriele Dambrone1943